Most of the aoc community doesnt have any interrest on Hd nor on new expension, none playing it and experts the firsts, lags bugs should explain it. So seing MS investing on something which is already not good or fixed, not sure how to take it.
Ofc the AOC community doesnt have that much interest in DLC games bc thats why they play AOC. However most of the HD community prefers DLC content due to the high number of lobbies and high copies sold of the DLC, and the HD community is growing extremely fast (https://www.reddit.com/r/aoe2/comments/ ... hd_active/)
so it is not fair to say the greater AOE2 community does not have interest in DLC content.